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“I want to talk to Sam,” the maid replies raising her chin in confrontation. The helper the maid is looking at turns when he hears her voice a surprised look on his face.
“Sam is busy, you can talk to him later.” The maid looks at us with a frown on her face and then back at the Chef that is standing in her way, it is clear that she wants to argue but I think that our presence has stopped her outburst as she snaps around and hurries out of the kitchen.
I glance at Dream to see a pensive look on her face as she too observes the interaction between the Troll and the Siren. There is clearly bad blood between the two, but whatever that is will have to wait when Love rushes into the kitchen.
“Hurry, I need to show you something,” it is clear by her anxious request that whatever she wants to show us must be something she has found in Dad’s room.
Huffing I grab the last bite of pie stuffing it into my mouth before I hurriedly follow Love and Dream out of the kitchen and up to Dad’s room. Walking in, Dream and I both stop in our tracks when we see Dad sitting up in bed, there is a blank look on his face as he stares at the wall before him.
“Dad?” I call, but to no avail as he seems to not even hear me.
“What happened?” Dream asks as she walks forward until she is standing next to the bed.
“That happened,” Love replies pointing towards a shelf to the side. On the shelf I see there is a tall object that has been covered with a pillowcase.
“What is that?” I ask walking towards it only to be stopped by Love’s hand on my upper arm.
“No, don’t touch it” she warns, shaking her head emphatically. “It’s a big Onix, just before Dad went like this the stone vibrated with evil that was debilitating. Someone has cursed the stone, and I don’t know what they have done, but it only vibrates occasionally because if I wasn’t in here with him I wouldn’t have picked it up.”
TREK 2
I know that being here to protect our queen is important but at this point in time with all the unrest that is happening around us I feel restless in leaving Hope unguarded. The palace is full of guards that will be at her side if there is danger, but I need to be there, I need to make sure that she is safe.
I am hoping that we find something soon that will speed up our returning home. Hope might be a handful, but I wouldn’t have her any other way. I will do anything for her, she is my mate, but she doesn’t know it yet. It is hard being so close to her and not telling her, not touching her like I want to touch her. When I see her near other men I want to rip their throats out, but instead of telling her I let her think that I’m a grouch.
“Whoever is involved in this is strong,” Shok says as he walks next to me as we scout the border where the gate to Eternity Fae lies. The Queen is standing behind with her guards, her eyes all seeing are trained on the energy gate that is currently closed, stopping anyone from going in our out. She has tried to open it with her magic, but to no avail. The queen is a Fairy Queen, powerful in her own right.
When I was drafted to be one of the princesses’ guards, I was angry. I know that it’s an honour to guard a royal princess, but I have my own people to think about, to lead. My father has been ready to pass the reigns over to me for a long time, but because of my place next to Hope I have held back.
When I first met Hope, I felt like my world had exploded around me, I couldn’t believe that the princess was my mate. The feeling of protection that fills me when I think about Hope is all consuming. I know that I am going to have to tell her soon aboutour bond, there is no way that I am going to allow any other being think they can have her to wife.
“Can you smell that?” Shok suddenly asks, which has me lifting my head and frowning as the smell of rotten flesh assaults me.
“It smells like something is dead near here,” I confirm as I start following the smell as it gets stronger the closer we get to its source. As we get to the edge of the gate, behind a tree, we find the carcass of a goat, it is clear that someone or something has been feeding from it.
“You think this has anything to do with what is happening?” Shok asks as he squats to look at the bite marks on the goat’s throat pointing towards a jagged piece.
“There is a deeper stench rising from this carcass that isn’t from its rotting body,” I say as I try to identify the source. Looking around I see a half circle burnt onto the ground that is surrounding the goat. “This was a ritual; someone is dabbling in the dark arts.” The Queen has approached and is now standing a few feet away from where we are crouching, her hands are out before her as she senses the energy around her.
“This is very dark magic; this is where it started.” The Queen says. “Set fire to it, let it burn until there is nothing left of the magic they have performed here.”
“Once we burn this area will that allow for whatever magic was used to disintegrate so that the gates into Eternity Fae are opened again?” Shok asks as he looks over his shoulder at the Queen.
“I’m afraid not, only the one that wielded this magic will be able to stop it or if they are dead.” She explains as we start building the fire around the area where the ritual was held. As we have no idea who is behind everything that has happened, finding the one responsible for this ritual is unlikely. We will have to kill allinvolved once we find out who the main culprit is. We know that there is more than one because of the attack, but the problem is that we don’t know who the foe is and who isn’t.
“Shok, Trek, fall back and I will do it.” The Queen commands which has us standing from our squat to make our way over towards where the Queen and her guards are standing. When Shok is standing beside me the Queen waves her hands and a few seconds later a fire starts to blaze where the goat is laying. “We will be going back home now that we found evidence of magic here, we need to find a way of finding where all this evil is coming from.”
The fire is now blazing high, the good thing is that this gate is situated in the middle of one of the forests. No human will be privy to it until it’s too late to realize that something burnt down here, not that it will be found as an obscuring magic spell has been placed around all the gates to make sure that humans don’t stumble into anything they shouldn’t stumble over.
When the fire finally starts to burn out, we make our way towards the two SUVs that are parked a few miles away. Just before I enter the vehicle the Queen calls me over to ride with her, a summon from the queen has me uneasy.
When we are well on our way, the Queen sitting next to me in the back seat looks over, her wise eyes looking deep into mine. “How are you, Trek?”
“I am well your grace,”
“How is everything back home?” the question about my home has dread building in my stomach, is she going to release me from my guard on her daughter? I will refuse because no matter what, Hope is mine.
“Everything is going well your grace, thank you for asking.” I don’t know what she is trying to get at but whatever it is she seems determined.
